Child on board! Serena Williams and husband Alexis Ohanian are gearing as much as be proud mother and father of two — and so they couldn’t be extra excited.
“Serena and Alexis love being mother and father and may’t wait to have one other,” a supply completely says of the pair within the latest version of Us Weekly, noting that the tennis legend, 41, and the entrepreneur, 40, know the intercourse of their child however “are ready to disclose.”
The twosome, who tied the knot in November 2017, already share 5-year-old daughter Olympia — and know that rising their brood goes to return with plenty of adjustments. “They’re slowly getting ready and establishing the nursery, determining the way it’s all going to work so far as their schedules,” a second insider says, including: “They’re simply on cloud 9 proper now.”
Williams revealed her second being pregnant by displaying off her child bump on the 2023 Met Gala crimson carpet in Could. “Was so excited when Anna Wintour invited the three of us to the Met Gala,” the athlete captioned photographs of the pair’s Gucci appears to be like through Instagram that very same day.
The 23-time Grand Slam winner later shared that she and Ohanian didn’t inform anybody — particularly their daughter — out of concern the information would leak too quickly. “Olympia doesn’t know proper now that I’m pregnant, so the massive reveal will likely be on the Met after which earlier than we depart, I’ll inform Olympia,” the Michigan native shared in a YouTube video earlier this month.
Final week, Williams posted a second YouTube clip of her telling Olympia she was about to be a giant sister. “We went to the physician and it seems I’m not getting fats, however I’ve a child in my stomach,” Williams advised her daughter, to which the baby received so “excited” she began screaming and working round the home in celebration.
The six-time Wimbledon champion and Ohanian grew to become mother and father once they welcomed Olympia in September 2017, two years after they met whereas staying on the identical resort in Rome. Williams introduced their engagement in December 2016 by sharing a poem titled “I Mentioned Sure” through Reddit. They tied the knot one yr later.
Alexis Ohanian, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. and Serena Williams. Matt Baron/Shutterstock
In April 2017, the My Life: Queen of the Court docket creator hit a snag in her journey towards motherhood when she by accident spilled her being pregnant information by importing a photograph of her child bump to Snapchat. 5 years later, she revealed that she confronted a second impediment when she almost died whereas giving delivery.
“I used to be coughing as a result of I had an embolism, a clot in certainly one of my arteries. The docs would additionally uncover a hematoma, a set of blood outdoors the blood vessels, in my stomach, then much more clots that needed to be saved from touring to my lungs,” she penned in an essay for Elle in April 2022, including that she needed to bear a number of surgical procedures and needed to keep within the hospital for per week.
Regardless of the struggles of her first being pregnant, each Williams and Ohanian can’t wait to proceed increasing their household. The New York native, for his half, is completely satisfied to have a home stuffed with ladies.
“Even when we’ve got, you realize, 50 extra children, they’re all gonna be ladies. However we’ll see,” he mentioned on the episode of Who’s Speaking to Chris Wallace? noting that he and his spouse plan to do “some sort of enjoyable little gender reveal state of affairs in some unspecified time in the future.”
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